This is the third part in a series on the doctrine of hell, here contrasted directly with heaven. Hell is described as God’s dump heap — a place of corruption, destruction, worthlessness, and meaninglessness, where the wicked are tormented under the abiding wrath of God. Heaven, by contrast, is described as the full realization of life, a world of order and meaning where people live in perfect harmony, and where God’s presence is the fullness of joy.
The sermon insists that sin and death are not part of God’s original creation — they are a malfunction of it, an abnormality intruding on the order God made very good. At the final separation, some will be welcomed into the kingdom prepared for them, while the accursed will depart into eternal fire. The problem, the sermon says, is not that the doctrine of hell is unfair, but that people underestimate their own guilt and God’s holiness; hell should deepen gratitude for the salvation found only in Jesus Christ.